Blockquotes are a classic way to highlight important statements, testimonials, or memorable lines in your blog posts. They act as visual pauses, drawing the reader's eye to key takeaways. But what if you could make them not only visually appealing but also instantly shareable on social media? Imagine your most impactful quotes traveling across the web, bringing new eyes to your content. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a modern blockquote widget for your blog that does just that:
- Features five unique, beautiful styles (with SVG quote icons) that you can tailor to your brand, giving your blog a polished and professional look.
- Lets readers share quotes to X (formerly Twitter) with a single click, transforming passive reading into active content promotion. This frictionless sharing encourages virality and expands your reach.
- Is SEO-friendly, copyright-protected, and easy to customize, ensuring your blog remains a trusted source while giving you full control over the widget's appearance and functionality.
Whether you use Blogger, WordPress, or another publishing platform, this versatile solution will help your content stand out in a crowded digital landscape and get shared more often, amplifying your message.
Why Stylish, Shareable Blockquotes Matter
Creating a compelling blockquote widget isn't just about aesthetics; it's a strategic move to boost engagement, reinforce your brand, and extend your content's reach.
1. Enhanced Reader Engagement
- Visual appeal: Long stretches of text can be daunting. Well-designed blockquotes act as visual breaks, segmenting your content into digestible chunks. They instantly draw attention to critical information, making your posts more scannable, more inviting, and ultimately, more readable. This improved readability keeps visitors on your page longer.
- Shareability: By adding a prominent “Post to X” button directly within the blockquote, you make it incredibly easy for readers to share your best lines, insights, or testimonials. This reduces friction in the sharing process, encouraging more people to become advocates for your content, which in turn increases your reach and engagement significantly. It transforms a passive reader into an active promoter.
2. Branding and Professionalism
- Consistent design: Custom blockquote styles are more than just pretty elements; they are an extension of your brand identity. By aligning the widget's design with your blog's overall aesthetic (colors, fonts, spacing), you create a cohesive and polished look. This consistency builds trust and reinforces your unique brand presence, making your blog instantly recognizable and memorable.
- Attribution: This blockquote widget helps promote your specific text from your content. This clearly communicates that the content originated from your blog. This technique will maintain your intellectual property rights.
3. SEO and Social Proof
- SEO-friendly: Our widget is designed with search engine best practices in mind. It avoids hidden links or manipulative practices that could trigger penalties from search engines. The code is clean and adheres to web standards, ensuring that your site remains safe and ranks well for its valuable content.
- Social proof: When readers genuinely appreciate your content enough to share your quotes, it acts as powerful social proof. These shares signal value and authority to new audiences who might discover your blog through a friend's shared post. It's a modern form of word-of-mouth marketing, building credibility and attracting organic traffic.
Why Use SVG Quote Icons?
In modern web design, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) are the gold standard for icons, and for good reason. For your blockquote icons, SVGs offer distinct advantages over traditional image formats:
- Crisp at any size: Unlike raster images (like JPGs or PNGs) that pixelate when scaled up, SVGs are vector-based. This means they are defined by mathematical paths, allowing them to scale perfectly to any size without losing clarity or becoming blurry. Your quote icons will look sharp and professional on every device, from the smallest smartphone screen to the largest 4K monitor, ensuring a consistent high-quality user experience.
- Customizable: One of SVG's greatest strengths is its flexibility. You can easily change the color, size, stroke, or even the icon itself directly within your CSS or JavaScript. This means you can integrate these icons seamlessly into each of your five unique blockquote styles, adapting their appearance to match specific design themes without needing to create multiple image files.
- Modern look: SVG icons inherently possess a clean, sharp, and professional aesthetic that aligns perfectly with contemporary web design trends. They contribute to a sleek, streamlined user interface, making your blockquotes feel dynamic and up-to-date compared to less flexible plain text characters or outdated image formats.
- Performance Benefits: SVGs are often smaller in file size than comparable raster images, leading to faster page load times. Furthermore, when embedded directly into your HTML, they eliminate additional HTTP requests, which further optimizes loading speed and improves overall site performance—a crucial factor for both user experience and SEO.
The Solution: Five Unique Blockquote Styles with X (formerly Twitter) Share Button
The beauty of this solution lies in its simplicity and versatility. You can effortlessly switch between five distinct styles for your blockquotes by simply changing a single number in the accompanying JavaScript. Each of these styles is meticulously crafted with its own unique visual identity: a dedicated background color or pattern, a specific font pairing, a distinct border design, and, of course, a unique SVG quote icon that complements its overall aesthetic. This modular approach allows you to quickly adapt the look and feel of your blockquotes to perfectly match any blog post's tone or your overall branding, without needing to dive into complex code changes for each instance.
How to Add This Blockquote Widget to Blogger
Step 1: Back Up Your Template (Crucial!)
Before making any changes to your blog's code, always create a backup of your Blogger template. This allows you to easily revert if anything goes wrong.
- Go to
Theme>Backup/Restore>Download.
Step 2: Add the CSS
The first step in bringing your stylish, shareable blockquotes to life is to implement the core styling. This is done by adding Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) code to your blog. CSS dictates how your blockquote widget will look—its colors, fonts, spacing, and the appearance of its elements.
Where to Add the CSS:
- Blog's Stylesheet (Recommended): Most modern blogging platforms (like WordPress, Blogger, or custom CMS) provide an option to access and edit your main CSS file (often named
style.cssor similar). This is the ideal place to add the code, as it keeps your styling organized and separate from your HTML. Look for aCustomize,Theme Options, orAppearancesection in your blog's dashboard, which often leads to an Additional CSS or Custom CSS area. Section of Your Template: If your platform doesn't offer direct access to a stylesheet or you're working with a more basic HTML template, you can paste the CSS directly within thesection of your blog's HTML template, enclosed withinandtags. While this works, it's generally less preferred for larger amounts of CSS as it mixes styling with structure.
How to Add the CSS to Blogger:
- Go to
Theme>Customize>Advanced>Add CSS.
OR
Go toTheme>Edit HTMLand paste the CSS just above. - Paste the following CSS:
/*
* (c) 2025 bloggerspice.com
* License: For personal/blog use only. Do not redistribute without permission.
*/
/* Responsive Blockquote Widget */
blockquote[class^="bq-style"] {
position: relative;
max-width: 100%;
width: 100%;
margin: 2em auto;
padding: 1.5em 1.5em 1.5em 3.5em;
box-sizing: border-box;
border-radius: 0.5em;
font-size: 1.1rem;
line-height: 1.6;
word-break: break-word;
overflow-wrap: break-word;
transition: background 0.3s, color 0.3s, border-color 0.3s;
}
/* SVG icon responsive */
.bq-quote-icon {
position: absolute;
left: 1em;
top: 1em;
width: 2.8em;
height: 2.8em;
min-width: 32px;
min-height: 32px;
max-width: 56px;
max-height: 56px;
opacity: 0.18;
pointer-events: none;
z-index: 1;
}
/* Responsive share button */
.tweetthis {
display: inline-block;
margin-top: 1em;
font-size: 1em;
padding: 0.7em 2em;
border-radius: 2em;
font-weight: 600;
cursor: pointer;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
transition: background 0.2s, color 0.2s;
border: none;
box-sizing: border-box;
word-break: break-word;
}
/* Prevent visited links from changing color */
.tweetthis:visited { color: inherit !important; }
.btn-style1:visited { color: #fff !important; }
.btn-style2:visited { color: #34a853 !important; }
.btn-style3:visited { color: #23272f !important; }
.btn-style4:visited { color: #d72660 !important; }
.btn-style5:visited { color: #1da1f2 !important; }
/* --- Style 1: Modern Card --- */
blockquote.bq-style1 {
background: #e6f4fd;
border-left: 0.4em solid #1da1f2;
color: #1a2a33;
font-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans-serif;
}
.btn-style1 {
background: #1da1f2;
color: #fff;
}
.btn-style1:hover {
background: #0d8ddb;
color: #e6f6fd;
}
/* --- Style 2: Minimal Outline --- */
blockquote.bq-style2 {
background: #fff;
border: 0.2em dashed #34a853;
color: #234d1a;
font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
}
.btn-style2 {
background: transparent;
color: #34a853;
border: 2px solid #34a853;
}
.btn-style2:hover {
background: #e8fbe6;
color: #234d1a;
}
/* --- Style 3: Bold Dark --- */
blockquote.bq-style3 {
background: #23272f;
color: #f9f9f9;
border-left: 0.4em solid #fbbc05;
font-family: 'Georgia', serif;
}
.btn-style3 {
background: #fbbc05;
color: #23272f;
}
.btn-style3:hover {
background: #e5a800;
color: #fffbe6;
}
/* --- Style 4: Soft Pastel Bubble --- */
blockquote.bq-style4 {
background: #fff0f6;
color: #a61c46;
border-left: none;
border-radius: 1.5em;
font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', 'PT Serif', cursive, sans-serif;
box-shadow: 0 2px 12px #f8bbd0;
}
.btn-style4 {
background: #ffe6f2;
color: #d72660;
border: 2px solid #d72660;
}
.btn-style4:hover {
background: #fff0f6;
color: #a61c46;
}
/* --- Style 5: Glassmorphism --- */
blockquote.bq-style5 {
background: rgba(255,255,255,0.92);
color: #1a2a33;
border-left: 0.3em solid #6c757d;
font-family: 'Montserrat', 'Verdana', Arial, sans-serif;
box-shadow: 0 8px 32px 0 rgba(31,38,135,0.10);
backdrop-filter: blur(2px);
}
.btn-style5 {
background: rgba(29,161,242,0.10);
color: #1da1f2;
border: 1.5px solid #1da1f2;
}
.btn-style5:hover {
background: #e6f4fd;
color: #0d8ddb;
}
/* --- Responsive breakpoints --- */
/* Tablets (portrait and below) */
@media (max-width: 900px) {
blockquote[class^="bq-style"] {
padding: 1.2em 1em 1.2em 2.5em;
font-size: 1em;
}
.bq-quote-icon {
width: 2.2em;
height: 2.2em;
left: 0.7em;
top: 0.7em;
}
}
/* Phones */
@media (max-width: 600px) {
blockquote[class^="bq-style"] {
padding: 1em 0.8em 1em 2em;
font-size: 0.97em;
}
.bq-quote-icon {
width: 1.7em;
height: 1.7em;
left: 0.5em;
top: 0.5em;
}
.tweetthis {
font-size: 0.95em;
padding: 0.6em 1.2em;
}
}
/* Extra small screens */
@media (max-width: 400px) {
blockquote[class^="bq-style"] {
padding: 0.7em 0.2em 0.7em 1.2em;
font-size: 0.92em;
}
.bq-quote-icon {
width: 1.2em;
height: 1.2em;
left: 0.2em;
top: 0.2em;
}
.tweetthis {
font-size: 0.9em;
padding: 0.5em 0.7em;
}
}
Step 3: Add the jQuery Library
JavaScript is the magic behind the dynamic styling and, crucially, the share functionality of your blockquote widget. It will detect your custom blockquotes, apply the correct visual style based on a simple attribute, and enable readers to share your content with a single click.
First, ensure jQuery is loaded:
Our script relies on jQuery, a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library that simplifies DOM manipulation and event handling. Many modern blog themes already include jQuery. However, if your Blogger theme is not using any JavaScript library, or specifically not jQuery, you'll need to add it first.
Paste this line of code at the top of your JavaScript section, or within the of your HTML template (though typically, scripts are placed before for performance):
Step 4: Add Your Custom JavaScript
Once you're certain jQuery is loaded, you can add the core JavaScript for your blockquote widget.
Paste this script just before your closing tag, after jQuery is loaded. This placement ensures that all the HTML elements your script needs to interact with (like your
elements and share buttons) have been fully loaded and are available in the Document Object Model (DOM).
Option 1: Add to Blogger Theme (Recommended for all posts)
- Go to
Theme>Edit HTML. - Just before
